Books
There are many books about autism written by autistic people. This section is modeled off of the Autistic Authors Booklist and Facts section of Autistics.org. It does not include all the same books, though. Some of the language found in these books may be dated, as they are products of their time. If the author or editor of a book on here is not autistic, but their publication is relevant, they are listed under "Autism books written by non-autistic people". Most of the books on here are available on Amazon, however, you are encouraged to order these books through your local bookstore as well. If there is a link on the title of the book, that means it's available for free online.
Understand: Fifty Memowriter Poems by David Eastham (1985)
A New Materialisms Poetic of Touch (includes a few of the poems)
Silent Words: Forever Friends by David Eastham and Margaret Eastham (1992)
Nobody Nowhere: The Remarkable Autobiography of an Autistic Girl by Donna Williams (1992)
Somebody, Somewhere: Breaking Free from the World of Autism by Donna Williams (1994)
Face Blind! by Bill Choisser (1997)
My World is not Your World by Alison Hale (1998)
Lucy's Story: Autism and Other Adventures by Lucy Blackman (1999)
Qui j'aurai été... Journal d'un adolescent autiste by Joffrey Bouissac
Cinderella with Wrong Shoes: Poems by a young woman with autism by Autumn Fan (2001)
Women From Another Planet? Our Lives in the Universe of Autism edited by Jean Kearns Miller (2003)
Story of Isosceles by Jim Sinclair (2003)
Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone by Douglass Biklen (2005)
Autism & Self Improvement by Eric Y Chen (2007)
Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison by Ido Kedar (2012)
Under the Banana Moon: Living, Loving, Loss, and Asperger's by Kimberly G. Tucker and Donna Williams
I Love Being My Autistic Self by Landon Bryce (2012)
Loud Hands: Autistic People Speaking edited by Julia Bascom (2012)
Typed Words Loud Voices edited by Amy Sequenzia and Elizabeth Grace (2015)
The Obsessive Joy of Autism by Julia Bascom (2015)
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida (2016)
It's An Autism Thing...I'll Help You Understand by Emma Dalmayne
All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism 1st edition edited by Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Lydia X. Z. Brown, and E. Ashkenazy (2016) (Currently unavailable)
The Outside in View of Uncommon Bostonian: What a Black Autistic Woman Sees by Yvonne Christian (2016)
What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon da Vanport, and Kristina Thomas (2017)
Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity by James McGrath
Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! By Sarah Pripas-Kapit (2020)
I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir by Sarah Kurchak (2020)
Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity edited by Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Emily Paige Ballou, and Sharon daVanport (2021)
The Many Mysteries of the Finkel Family by Sarah Pripas-Kapit (2021)
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation by Eric Garcia (2021)
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price (2022)
The Autism Industrial Complex: How Branding, Marketing, and Capital Investment turned Autism into Big Business by Robin Roscigno and Alicia A. Broderick (2022)
Sensory: Life on the Spectrum: An Autistic Comics Anthology by Bex Ollerton (original author)
I Will Die on This Hill: Autistic Adults, Autism Parents, and the Children who Deserve a Better World by Jules Edwards and Meghan Ashburn (2023)
A Day With No Words by Tiffany Hammond (2023)
The Person Who Arrives: Connecting Disability Studies and Educational Practice for Teachers, Parents, and Others by Leah Kelley (2023)
A Neurodiversity and Gentle Parenting Journey...in Color by Morénike Giwa Onaiwu (2023)
Autism and related books written by non-autistic people
Sharing Our Wisdom: A Collection of Presentations by People within the Autism Spectrum edited by Gail Gillingham and Sandra McClennen (2004)
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman (2015)
Asperger's Children- The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer (2018)
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong (2021)
Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (2022)
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong (2024)
Some interesting facts
Autistic people write books. Lots of them.
The Loud Hands Project originally started as an archive-much like this site-but it became difficult to decide what content would go into it because of organizational policy, so an anthology was written instead.
The Reason I Jump has a film adaptation on Netflix. More info can be found here
NeuroTribes was the first science book to ever win a Samuel Johnson Prize in the UK and is available in 21 different languages
Nobody, Nowhere was first published in 1992, but a revised version was published in 1998